Cheese, you Tease!

Day one of the GloPoWriMo, write thirty poems in one month challenge and am feeling up for it! (Oo er!)Today, the challenge is to write a poem about a secret shame or secret pleasure and cheese immediately sprang to mind! Now that my life affair with cheese is officially out there, I think it’s time I celebrated with a slab of Gorgonzola!

Competition website : http://www.napowrimo.net/

Confessions of a Cheese Addict

It’s time my secret was unearthed

This love affair won’t ease

Quite frankly since I joined this earth

I’ve had a crush on cheese!

I’m on my knees each time I spy

A raunchy piece of cheddar

Gruyère or Emmenthal and my

heart’s light, and soft as feathers

The draw of Sbrinz has me convinced

And Tête de Moine’s compelling

It’s not by chance or circumstance

that on Swiss soil I’m dwelling!

Too much Raclette, I just can’t get

My heart melts with each portion

Fondue is always a safe bet

My lust defies proportion!

And who needs sweets or chocolate treats

when Brie and grapes are calling?

Poor substitutes cannot compete

It’s clear for whom I’m falling!

I guess it shows how far this goes

We are made for each other

Dear Cheese, you had me at hello!

I’ll always be your lover!

Published by Sam Allen Creative Coach

As well as being a poet, highly-sensitive being and self-confessed Crazy Cat Lady, I am a Creative Leadership Coach, Trainer and Team Coach with considerable experience in coaching clients in the Creative, Manufacturing, and Pharmaceutical sectors. I specialise in helping individuals and teams to work past limiting beliefs, to think outside-of-the-box and to show up as conscious, inspiring and dynamic leaders. I am passionate about helping leaders to show up authentically and I design and co-lead bespoke Conscious Leadership programmes for FMCG organisations wishing to create opportunities for their employees to shine and truly maximise their potential. In addition, I co-facilitate Happy Teams workshops, helping remote teams to build trust and connect to their strengths, purpose and vision in playful, creative and experiential ways. A co-active coach with PCC accreditation from the ICF, I am also Leadership Circle Profile certified and ORSC trained. I graduated from the CTI Inner Leadership programme in February 2020 and know from firsthand experience what it means to do the deep, inner work needed for personal growth. I hold a BA in French and Drama and a PGCE in Modern Foreign Languages. Throughout my coaching career I have empowered individuals to write books, make life-affirming career changes, overcome anxiety and to take giant leaps towards heightened self-realisation, increased authentic leadership presence and spiritual growth. An ex-lawyer and C-suite executive client recently shared that she had “never experienced anything so powerful” and that she is now able to “trust her truth”. One global client team leader reported being “touched, motivated, encouraged and brimming with energy” and another shared that his team was able to “demonstrate their creativity and really get behind their vision”. My personal and team coaching style is playful, intuitive, somatic and compassionate. My workshop facilitation style is dynamic, inclusive, expressive and authentic and my 20 years experience as an international school educator and team leader have contributed to my ease in leading group facilitation. My superpower is using my incredible intuition and sensitivity to see into people and challenge them in a powerfully courageous way. A prolific poet and podcaster, I live and breathe my own creativity and in turn inspire others to do the same

25 thoughts on “Cheese, you Tease!”

    1. Angela! Too many serendipitous similarities for us not to be in contact! Are you on Facebook? You can find me under SJ Allen and my page is called New Flow Coaching. Great to connect with humour over all things cheesey! 🙂

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  3. This was great fun!
    Fortunately, there is no such thing as too much cheese.
    Unfortunately, there is such a thing as too much wine. I can’t drink very much of that these days, so the cheese stands alone much of the time.

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